The book football team started with three wins this season but has not lost three
straight and this week sports spotlight meet talented Mustangs quarterback David
Roddy. It's an eye opener for an opponent's
record junior David Roddy is sixty five and weighs two hundred fifty pounds and has
great quarterback skill lots of people say enough is better but I like to compare
my sense. It's more like him one more built like him and then on it's part of his
receivers have to remember Robbie is fast and really tough to bring down so his
scrambles can create chances downfield you get caught sometimes sleeping and you
really hope he comes here so he's down right no Perry comes again. Staying alive is
definitely
a part of being receiver but that's often the city I prefer it to be you know how
we do and it's gone up how it how it's told how to play it when I have to I can
extend the play I'm blessed enough to make that athletic play and they send one one
of those receivers he throws to his David's older brother Joshua has high praise
for his so called Little Brother sometimes I don't want to admit it but I think
he's one of the best quarterbacks in the state because the things he can do in the
way he can extend plays and then at the end of the play the sixty are not great
that's out and just things like that and I don't see anybody else our age doing
those kind of things on a kid on that consistent of
a basis Josh admits it wasn't always easy having
a younger brother get so much attention for his athletic exploits I'm going to be
on it in the past and it did sting. And then I kind of realize that you know
it's not just like me not being good enough it's that he is just one in a once in
a while spectacular athlete he works closely with Rakoff unsupported or Marcus
Harris former star at Brooklyn Center and
a coffee. When I received her at the University of Wyoming you know I very close we
joke around
a lot but in serious times you can be serious you know he lets me hear the truth
first and he will always be the first one to congratulate me on something I did
right so you know who's the kids are great what role model most of the stuff he
does that amazes me is the camera practice he does the one hand catches that just
would. Make your head spin this amazing So he's definitely.
An incredible athlete and I would argue with anyone that possibly best in the state
he's fun to work with Rod he's become a very good football player but it's not
a sure thing that says Bass store favorite sport he's also
a pretty unstoppable force on the basketball court right now I have equal of for
most words you know during the football season on this past Monday and that's what
isn't on this football so it's just just because hand in hand right now there's no
really I'm superior sports. David's drawing some interest from college recruiters
in both sports stats and contact with football program I've had a few interest
a few invites to the well again just recently that in Minnesota I have. Visiting
Wisconsin and also visiting you know it's part of state record coach John Martin
says college coaches can see Roddy's gifts on film but they want to know more about
him as
a person too and Martin gives him high marks there what impresses me most about him
even then but now it when you talk about growth is the maturity and the young man
that he's becoming. He's humble he's a he's a great leader and he's
a fierce competitor and he is able to kind of harness all that into
a way where people respect that Rex coaches admit there was some sentiment to move
David Roddy to another position because of his size when he first came into the.
Those days are long gone and the Mustang's leaders have no doubt he can be
a great deal one college player if he chooses to we've had
a few here. In my time the most recent being remodeled and you know when once you
see one or two of those guys you know they look back and you know when we saw David
out on the field it took about ten minutes of watching
a movie or on their freshman year to say we got something special in our hands and
so yeah I think I think he's certainly. A D.
One athlete for sure. Is averaging two hundred twenty five yards passing per game
and fourteen touchdown passes this fall.